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usually enjoy the crime/mystery genre, And I'm okay with reading something light, This just wasn't worth it, though,

What bothered me most was that Hannah seems unhappy with Mike, one of the men she's dating, He's rude, takes credit for her work, and he's sexist, I expected her, in the end, to tell him to get lost, But no. She just sucks it up and takes it, Um, hello Self respect Hannah has none, apparently, I guess the fact that he's a handsome guy means more than how he treats her,

And the secondary characters all seem pretty stupid, A child figures out what's going on but none of the adults do until they're told Really Huh,

Luckily, I didn't waste any money on this, and it's a quick read, . . but I want my time back, I only kept reading because I figured it'd get better, Wrong. Don't bother with this one, I wondered if I would tired with Joanne Fluke's books after a while but I did enjoy this one except for two disappointments, One disappointment was the very predictable theft at the beginning of the novel, The second was the extreme brevity of the story, It was over before I realized it, I thought I was only halfway through,

For bakers though, there are a ton of recipes at the back of the book, Story was fine. Way too short. I thought it was a full book, I finished the actual storythrough the book and the remaining parts were recipes and commentary, I was a little disappointed, Maybe I should have looked at it more before buying it, but then again, it's part of a series, so you gotta read em all, right I understand short releases to keep your audience happy, so it doesn't stop me from reading more.
I will keep going there's only what,more to go

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It's Christmas ! Hannah is preparing for the annual banquet at Eden Lake, and everyone in town is expected to come.
Except, that is, for recently divorced Martin Dubinski's new wife: a tall, gorgeous Las Vegas dancer whom he met and married on a whim just a week before, When the "exotic" beauty gets killed in the parking lot, and everyone is locked in with the excuse of keeping safe from the snowstorm, Hannah and her gang are "forced" to investigate on yet another body.
. . oh, yes: did I mention Hannah found this one as well A frozen corpse in the snow turns out to be exactly what is needed to turn up the heat in this cold, Christmas night!



At this point, no one is even upset anymore by Hanna's unsettling habit of finding bodies every other day really, this woman meets more deceased people than a graveyard: even the town cop now is just leaving her alone, unlike her mother, who keeps complaining that this habit will ruin her social life even though Hannah's murder club grows dangerously fast, and she uses corpses as her main way to bond with people, including her sister and everyone seems to take for granted that a new killer means a new investigation form infamous snooper Hannah Swensen.


The more I get into this series, the less I like Mike, He needs to be kicked out! Release Date: October,
Genre: Cozy Mystery

This is my favorite cozy mystery series and I can never get enough of Hannah Swensen and the murder mysteries she always seems to get involved in! In this installment, it is christmas time and everyone is gathering together to test out the recipes that are being used in the Lake Eden Cookbook.
But when someone goes missing, and then ends up dead it is up to Hannah and the police to find out who did it before the killer strikes again!

This book is a lot shorter than some of the authors other books and can be read in one sitting.
In fact, even though the book is longer in page length, half of it is filled with all sorts of amazing recipes that are to be included in the cookbook.
You can bet that I will be trying out many of them in the future! Joanne Fluke makes these recipes so easy to follow,

With that being said, this is another great addition to the series and it's so nice to see the characters grow though each book, Fans of cozy mysteries, this series would be PERFECT for you! Just be sure to read the books in order as that is how they are meant to be read otherwise, you will be confused because each book surrounds the same character amateur sleuth Hannah Swensen.
Sugar Cookie Murder Hannah Swensen
by Joanne Fluke Goodreads Author

Paperback,pages
Published Octoberstby Kensington first published Januaryst

The holidays are the icing on the cake for bakery owner Hannah Swensen.
Surrounded by her loved ones, she has all the ingredients for a perfect Christmas until murder is added to the mix, . .
When it comes to holidays, Minnesotans rise to the occasion and the little town of Lake Eden is baking up a storm with Hannah leading the way, The annual Christmas Buffet is the final test of the recipes Hannah has collected for the Lake Eden Holiday Buffet Cookbook,
While Hannah is baking the day s goodies at The Cookie Jar, the evening s plans begin to jell, Start with the best Lake Eden culinary creations, add two of Hannah s sometime boyfriends, a pinch of her readytopop pregnant sister, and a dash of her mother and new significant other, an actual British lord, and what do you get A recipe for disaster, but the juiciest ingredient is yet to come.
. .
The recently divorced Martin Dubinski arrives at the buffet with his new Vegas showgirl wife all wrapped up in glitter and fur, His exwife, however, seems as cool as chilled eggnog, And when Hannah s mother s antique Christmas cake knife disappears, its discovery in the dcolletage of the new and now late Mrs, Dubinski puts the festivities on ice,
With everyone stranded at the community center by a blizzard, Hannah puts her investigative skills to the test, using the ingredients at hand: half the town of Lake Eden and a killer.
Now, as the snowdrifts get higher, it s up to Hannah to dig out all the clues and make sure that this white Christmas doesn t bring any more deadly tidings.


I have to state from the very beginning of this review that I am in love with Joanne Fluke, If you are ever in a severe reading slump like I have been for the past two months, you need to pick up a Hannah Swensen mystery, When you're in a reading funk, pick up a Fluke novel, It is guaranteed to get you out of your reading slump, It sure worked wonders for me,

I used the Text to Speech feature on my Kindle and read this book while I crossstitched, This book is a bit smaller than other Hannah Swensen mysteries but it sure pack s a punch, Fluke doesn't sit on her laurels and phone in the shorter books, These are just as filled with mystery, mayhem and mad cap moments as all her full length novels, Plus, this book has a plethora more recipes than other books do, at least it seemed that way to me, This story featured a contest sort of thing where they were cooking dishes that would make it into a town cookbook, Of course, Hannah is in charge of that, Even her "I don't cook and don't make me" sister, Andrea, even provides a recipe,

It was such a joy to return to these characters and follow along as Hannah and her two sisters helped Mike solve the mystery of who killed Brandywine, the Las Vegas showgirl turned Martin's newest bride.


This book is a hoot and a half, You definitely need to read this one, I may have enjoyed it a tad bit more since it featured a holiday theme and Christmas is only a month or so behind me as far as calendar time goes.


It is my mission to collect all the Hannah Swensen mysteries, So expect to see more of them featured here,

I bough this book from Amazon and read it on my Kindle, I bought this book with my own money and I thank the publishers for being so foresighted to allow such a wonderful series out into the world, De sangfroid. Vraiment très froid.

Drôle d'hiver pour notre héroïne préférée ! Jugezen plutôt,

C'est le repas de Noël à la salle des fêtes de Lake Eden : l'occasion pour les habitants de partager leurs meilleures recettes de l'année dans

une ambiance chaleureuse.
Mais celleci devient vite glaciale lorsqu'une des convives est assassinée avec le couteau à gâteau, Pire encore, du fait d'une redoutable tempête de neige, plus personne ne peut quitter les lieux, Coincée avec toute sa joyeuse petite famille, Hannah va tenter de débusquer le coupable,

Deux mois plus tard, à peine remise de ses émotions, Hannah doit faire face à l'installation d'une pâtisserie concurrente, . . tenue par Shawna Lee, sa rivale auprès de l'irrésistible Mike, Jalousie, quand tu nous tiens ! Lorsque Shawna est retrouvée assassinée, tous les regards se tournent vers notre chère pâtissière, Qui, pour se disculper, va à nouveau devoir mener l'enquête !

Meurtres et biscuits au sucre, Meurtres et cobbler aux pêches : deux " faits d'hiver " en un seul volume, où l'on retrouve notre irrésistible Miss Marple du Minnesota, son chat Moshe et ses délicieuses recettes de pâtisserie maison.
Six millions de lecteurs conquis à travers le monde : on comprend vite pourquoi ! Hannah and her friends are holding a buffet and testing recipes for the new community cook book, An awful snowstorm strands everyone at the center, including the nolongerflamboyant murder victim and the murderer, Its not exactly a closed room murder, but its close enough, Mike is his usual obnoxious self while investigating the crime, and Hannah, as usual, is a step ahead of him, This is an entertaining and delightful Christmas cozy, but its good any time of the year you want to read it, Awe I love holiday books, Hannah and her gang are back for another fun installment, Great plot and festiveness that make this book a win, I think I keep reading these because they are really easy reads, They're like popcorn books, you can just read them quickly and easily, without thinking,

I like the main character, She's a bit tactless and interesting, Another review on another book in this series mentioned that she seems a lot older than she is and I agree, She's just turnedin this book and she strikes me more as a woman in her's or older, It might be the small town angle the author seems to like, I'm surprised no one has said "gee whiz" or "golly gee", There's a's, Andy Griffith feel you get from these books and the characters in Lake Eden, The other characters are pretty two dimensional mostly with that same wide eyed, gee whiz quality, but overall, these books are enjoyable, easy reads,

I have complaints though, And yes, many spoilers, so if you don't want to know, stop reading now!

First of all, half of this book is a cookbook! The story ends at pageand the otherpages are all recipes! I would not have been happy if I'd bought this book but thankfully I got it from the library.
Yes, she always has recipes in her books but it's usually one at the end of a chapter, not half a Sugar Cookie Murder's worth,

For the actual story, my first problem was the attitude of the characters toward a murder, I've noticed this in her other books, but in this one it's more noticeable, The author apparently wanted to keep up the witty banter, so despite the fact that the whole story takes place over the course of a few hours, almost no one was upset over the murder.
At one point her sister was queasy not over the loss of life, but the details of the death but then, a few lines later, talks about how good some cookies are.
The other younger sister is even more callous, And when the killer is finally revealed, everyone seems to be more happy about how the victim was now out of the way than anything else, I really have never met such heartless people as are in these books,

Then, at the end, the main character's sister goes into labor, So they leave the location and bring her to the hospital without telling her husband, They are told that the husband is going to the police station he is an officer but it was just minutes later that the sister goes into labor and they didn't even try to find him, he was probably not even out the building yet.
They just got her into a car and left, The laboring woman doesn't even say gee, I wish my husband was here, Nothing.

When he arrives at the hospital, he doesn't go join his wife, he instead paces the hallway with the other characters, I had to look again at when this book was written, No one even made a comment about it,

And when the baby is born and there is a problem with the name they had picked, the doctor says that the "sisters" need to fix it, Not the father. No, he briefly visited his new born baby and wife and then went out to celebrate with his friends according to the doctor,

The author seems a bit defensive about moose leather boots since in a few books she's made comments about how they are not "PC", so it surprised me she didn't make any defensive comments about the's style attitude toward childbirth in this story.


And finally, the main character's niece, She is apparently profoundly gifted or else the author has never met ayear old I just looked at the author's bio and she's not only had kids, she's been a school teacher ok, profoundly gifted then.


In the first book ageat that time I think her speech was rather adult for a child, The topics, the ideas, the grammar, But in this book she writes a letter to Santa, She has to ask how to spell "body" and a few harder words but then goes on to write a multi page letter with good grammar and spelling, Most five year olds don't have the physical small motor coordination and stamina to write more than a few sentences, never mind the very long letter this girl writes, And, as another reviewer already said, this five year old is also smart and observant enough to know there has been a murder even though most of the adults at the party have been kept in the dark.


So if you're looking for an easy read for fun, these books are for you, but there are a lot of things to overlook, But maybe, like me, they will grow on you and you'll enjoy the easy, fun read and the poking fun you'll get to do after :,